On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:21:54PM -0700, Philip Pokorny wrote: > As a follow up to my previous e-mail I thouht I would document some other > thoughts I had recently about the interface between the new sysfs based > drivers and libsensors and user-space applications. > > Not that any of these are particularly good ideas, I just wanted to get > them out there... > > 1. If the library is to be able to deal with any value in a consistent way, > it needs to know if that value is in milli-degC, mVolts or whole counts. > While saying that all temperatures would now *have* to be reported in > milli-degC makes all temperatures consistent, there is still the problem > that all values are not scaled identically (fan's are in whole RPM's). If > each reading came with a scaling factor (1 to 1000 or more) it would be > possible to have a generic routine for converting a driver integer to a > user-space floating point value. > > I see two possibilities... > > Include the scaling in the same file with the reading: Ick, no. What's wrong with just using the same units always? thanks, greg k-h
